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A powerful typhoon makes landfall in China, Trump faces more criminal charges, and and how Meta's Threads app plans to hook its users.

Plus, a look at the deadly threat from landmines in Ukraine.

By Linda Noakes

Today's Top News

Members of the coast guard search for victims after a passenger boat capsized in the waters of Binangonan, Rizal province, Philippines, July 28, 2023

Typhoon Doksuri swept into southern China, unleashing heavy rain and violent gusts of wind that whipped power lines and sparked fires, uprooted trees, and ripped off part of a stadium roof. Doksuri has already left a wake of death and destruction in its path as it moved from the Philippines across southern Taiwan.
Niger President Mohamed Bazoum remained held in the presidential palace and it was unclear who was in charge of the country after soldiers declared a military coup that sparked widespread condemnation. West and Central Africa Bureau Chief Bate Felix explains why the West is worried in today's Reuters World News podcast.
Donald Trump ordered employees at his Florida resort to delete security videos as he was under investigation for retaining classified documents, US prosecutors said as they broadened the case against the former president and charged a second member of his staff with helping to hide documents.
President Joe Biden took steps to protect workers from extreme heat and met with the mayors of sweltering cities Phoenix and San Antonio as an intensifying heat wave put half of Americans under heat watches and warnings. We outline the health risks of soaring temperatures.
The car carrier burning off the Dutch coast since Tuesday night is carrying nearly 500 electric vehicles, significantly more than the 25 initially reported, ship charter company K Line said.
A one-mile stretch of a highway in the foothills of India's Manipur state has become the symbol of a vicious sectarian conflict that has killed over 180 people since May and severely dented the strongman image of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It's a deep embarrassment for Modi as he prepares to host a summit of G20 leaders.

Business & Markets

A man stands in front of an electric board displaying the Nikkei stock average outside a brokerage in Tokyo, July 28, 2023

The Bank of Japan made its yield curve control policy more flexible and loosened its defense of a long-term interest rate cap, slowly shifting away from years of massive monetary stimulus as inflation and economic growth pick up. Here's how Japan's yield curve control works.
Some of the euro zone's top economies displayed unexpected resilience in the second quarter even as a raft of indicators pointed to renewed weakness ahead, as manufacturing ails and services slow.
From Intel to Samsung, global chipmakers are celebrating the beginning of the end of a semiconductor supply glut, but the outlook for demand from customers outside the artificial intelligence industry remains gloomy.
Meta Platforms executives are heavily focused on boosting retention on their new Twitter rival Threads, after the app lost more than half of its users in the weeks following its buzzy launch, CEO Mark Zuckerberg told employees.
AstraZeneca delivered better-than-expected profits and sales in the second quarter as a strong performance of its blockbuster cancer drugs helped offset the loss of COVID-19 vaccine sales.
Long before Europe faced its debt crisis, Sweden struggled through its own 1990s property crash. Now the country is preparing to use an old playbook to contain its problems.

The Week Ahead

The Bank of England is the last of the big central banks to meet before the summer break gets truly under way, but euro zone data, US jobs numbers and rumblings in China's property sector will keep markets busy as the earnings season winds down.
HSBC will close out a mixed reporting season for big European banks, with investment banking revenues still dwindling as deal activity slumps, while rising rates lift more staid business lines such as corporate and retail banking.
Here's a look at the week ahead from our markets team.

What Lies Beneath - The Land Mine Threat in Ukraine

As Ukrainian forces slowly push ahead with their 2023 counteroffensive after more than a year of shifting battle lines, the country's military and civilians face a deadly problem.

Land mines - potentially hundreds of thousands of them - are scattered across roads, buried in fields and concealed in devastated cities.

Our graphics team has illustrated the huge problem of unexploded ordnance.

Photos Of The Week

Wildfires, protests and athletes in action. Here's a slideshow of our top images from this week.

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